Rhino_man:In before "Gun grabbers don't want to talk about mental health" derpers who never actually propose any changes to the mental health system.

OR they'll propose some labyrinthe and draconian licensing, training, and regulatory regime that they pass off as minor and perfectly reasonable.

If only he had to undergo 2 cat scans, multiple psychological exams,$50/year licensing, fingerprinting, purchase a drill proof, fire proof safe, undergo police academy training, be embedded with the Army for 6 months, get written references from 15 neighbors, and fill out a 20 page life history dossier, none of those would have happened.

OK, now I feel weird beause when I started posting stupid stuff in this thread that guy was still alive, and now a few minutes later, I'm still sitting here at work and that guy is dead. That's kind of depressing.

Too bad there wasn't a non-lethal option for getting control of the situation. Everyone has bad days and stupid ideas.

Thisbymaster:I bet he was the former owner of the house. But no one is going to blame the banks, nope not one person.

No I'm not going to blame the f*cking bank, you idiot. Sure, it's possible (even likely) this guy's beef has to do with the foreclosure of his home but the bank did not take any hostages. He did.

Regardless of what drove him to them, his actions are his own. Hell, we don't even know why the bank foreclosed on him. You know sometimes they do that because you didn't pay for your f*cking house, not just out of spite or because they had the wrong lot number on some forms.

My wife's friend lives out there. She's always trying to convince us we need to buy a brick-front, vinyl-sided two story tract home out there because we can get a home that's twice as big as ours for half the money and spend our days in traffic.

lostcat:OK, now I feel weird beause when I started posting stupid stuff in this thread that guy was still alive, and now a few minutes later, I'm still sitting here at work and that guy is dead. That's kind of depressing.

Too bad there wasn't a non-lethal option for getting control of the situation. Everyone has bad days and stupid ideas.

My least intelligent ideas, even if executed upon my most miserable days, would not result in me being justifiably shot by a law enforcement agent.

lostcat:OK, now I feel weird beause when I started posting stupid stuff in this thread that guy was still alive, and now a few minutes later, I'm still sitting here at work and that guy is dead. That's kind of depressing.

Too bad there wasn't a non-lethal option for getting control of the situation. Everyone has bad days and stupid ideas.

There WAS a nonlethal option, though. The guy wanted his utilities turned back on... so have the utilities reconnected, wait for the firefighters to come out, then go in there and taze the fark out of him.

This isn't about what the banks did, bla bla bla. This is about a crazy farking a-hole that deserves to be punished for being a crazy farking a-hole.

/in regards to all the comments about banks, they are to blame for what happened//the people who had a household income of $65K and a net worth of $20K and took the mortgage on a house valued at $500K, they are also to blame. Ignorance doesn't negate blame

There's something happening hereBut what it is ain't exactly clearThere's a man with a gun over thereTelling me I got to bewareI think it's time we stopChildren, what's that sound?Everybody look - what's going down?

I do have to say, I wish the media would tape delay this stuff a bit. For all we know this guy is in the McMansion jerking off to the fact he's finally getting attention for the first time in his miserable life. There is really no reason I need to see reporters asking questions the cops can't answer due to OPSEC or the fact they just don't know the answer.

Godscrack:What are firefighters doing just wandering around someone's property?

And the police got there so fast. I WONDER WHY.

FTA:

"According to Captain Rutledge of the Gwinnett County Fire Department, authorities believed they were responding to a medical call. The firefighters are now being held in the house on Walnut Grove Way in Suwanee. "

I just heard a woman say 'we reported the foreclosure already.' Sounds like another greedy bank trying to kick someone out of their home. The firefighters tried to lie to him, tell him his house was on fire. The owner said 'Na-uh!'